(urth) Fwd: Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

[James Wynn]

On 11/19/2011 9:09 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Seems to me that whereas spirit, mind, and body are clear divisions

I'm not so sure they are and this appears to be a definite interest for 
Wolfe.
When a person suffers a stroke his personality sometimes changes. What 
will heaven be like when we leave our physical memories behind (remember 
Wolfe is not a materialist). Some people claim to remember former lives. 
How does that work? Wolfe is having the Narrator remember but not remember.

And as I said, Wolfe is investigating the Incarnation here. And he's not 
all that sure about it himself. Orthodox theology rejects the idea of 
Christ as God "hiding out" in a human body because it makes the scene at 
Lazarus's tomb and his prayer at Gethsemane and his "My God, my God" 
statement just theater. And yet you have that foreshadowing of Horn's 
childhood with the puppet...and that's just the opposite. I think it is 
a mistake to think that just because Wolfe writes novels investigating 
identity that he has this idea in his mind of how it works.